I want to cherry pick the services I want

Your services are too expensive

I don’t want to give the VC a stake in my company

I can do this on my own

(Reddit) I refused two offers as I'm bootstrapped, profitable, growing, and don't see the point in giving away equity. Solo founder with 100%. I got some loans offered by local incubators and other financial institutions (company is considered startup despite being profitable as we're less than 3 years old) - 0% interest for 75% of the total loan, about 4% for the reminder, making this a very low interest rate and a solid 200k financing. This will help with pay the new hires during the delay until the launch of our new features for our product.

Maybe I'll grow slower. Maybe I will not reach the moon. That's fine. Goal is to continue, have fun, be profitable, and not lose either your roots or values in the process.

Giving away equity to a VC would include money in the equation, and that's not the plan !

The only way I'm giving away equity is, after some time, to people that are working with me to reward them for their work. Those that were there early and whom I can fully trust !

Not sure how I can phrase it in English - doing my best.

Basically I am doing a lot of innovative stuff (not AI, real r&d). I was doing them solo. So I got in contact with someone to help me get through the paperwork to get the government tax cut with those tasks. Tons of paperwork.

Turns out he was also involved in financing. We discussed, I was already hiring at that point, and told me all I could have access to with my startup status - I didn't view my business as a startup, but for everyone else, I am. Told him giving away equity was a big no :)

Why should I trust you- what is your track record?

I don’t need mindset coaching? Or Scaling Coaching?